Message from the National Council of Churches
September 16, 2004, Raleigh, N.C. - The almost six-year boycott of the Mt. Olive Pickle Company - a boycott endorsed by the National Council of Churches USA and several of its member communions - ended today (Sept. 16) with the signing of an agreement to unionize some 8,000 "guest" farmworkers in North Carolina - making them the first such workers in the history of the United States to win union representation and a contract.
